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Install, configure and run SVN server on Linux
This note is about how to install, configure and run SVN (Subversion) server on Linux. In my case, it’s Debian.
The requirements:
- Use svnserve, so access repositories via svn:// protocol.
- Install, configure and run SVN server as fast as possible.
Install SVN (Subversion) server
sudo apt-get install subversion |
Create the folder for repositories
In this example repositories are located in /var/spool/svn/, you may choose the another folder.
sudo mkdir /var/spool/svn |
Create the first repository
In the code below, the new repository is created in the test folder.
sudo svnadmin create /var/spool/svn/test |
Configure access
Find /var/spool/svn/test/conf/svnserve.conf and check that password-db, anon-access and auth-access are uncommented and have the following values:
password-db = passwd anon-access = none auth-access = write |
Set users passwords in repository’s passwd file:
[users] user1 = passwordforuser1 user2 = passwordforuser2 user3 = passwordforuser3 |
Start SVN server with help of svnserve
svnserve -d -r /var/spool/svn |
Possible problems:
1. If you cannot checkout and get the error, use the correct path.
user@server:~$ svn co svn://server.url/var/spool/svn/test ~/test |
svn: No repository found in ‘svn://server.url/var/spool/svn/test’
Incorrect repository path. It should be:
user@server:~$ svn co svn://server.url/test ~/test |
2. If you get an access error check the repository access configuration.
user@server:~$ svn co svn://server.url/test ~/test --username user1 --password 123456 |
svn: No access allowed to this repository
No access to this repository. Check that password-db is uncommented in svnserve.conf and auth-access has the value of write:
password-db = passwd auth-access = write |
Also check that you have the user password configuration in passwd file of the repository.
Remote backup and restore SVN repository
Backup:
sudo svnrdump http://some.url/some-repository > backup.dump |
Restore:
sudo svnadmin load repository_name < ~/backup.dump |